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No. 37. 


LIBRARY of 

Cape Cod 

HISTORY & GENEALOGY 

STEPHEN 1 and GILES 2 HOPKINS 

Mayflower Passengers 

and Some of Tk eir Descendants 
INCLUDING AN ELDREDGE LINE 

By James W. Hawes 



YARMOUTHPORT, MASS.: 

C. W. SWIFT, Publisher and Printer, 
The 4 ‘Register ’' Press, 

1915 . 













STEPHEN 1 and GILES 2 HOPKINS 

Mayfl ower Passengers 

and Some of Th eir Descendants 
INCLUDING AN ELDREDGE LINE 

By James Hawes 


Copyright, 1915, by 
FIRST GENERATION.* 

Stephen 1 Hopkins, born in 
England, came over in the 
Mayflower in 1620, bringing 
with him Giles and Constanta 
(Constance), children by a first 
wife whose name is not known, 
a second wife Elizabeth whose 
maiden name is not known, (a) 
two children by her, Damaris and 
Oceanus (born on the passage), 
and two servants, Edward Doty 
and Edward Litster. He d. be¬ 
tween June 6, 1644 (date of his 
will), and July 17, 1644 (date of 

•Acknowledgment must be made 
for valuable aid rendered by the 
writer’s nephew, William C. Smith, 
Esq., author of ‘‘History of Chat¬ 
ham.” 

(a) She was not the daughter 
of Francis 1 Cooke (2 Mf. 63). 


H 

Charles W. Swift, 
his inventory).(al) His 2d wife 
d. in Plymouth between 1640 and 
1644. (a2) 

In 1651 Mr. Hopkins and his 
wife were dead. They had had 
a son and four daughters born 
in Plymouth. The son became a 
seaman and had died in Barbados, 
one daughter had died in Ply¬ 
mouth, two daughters were mar¬ 
ried, one of them having two 
children, and one was unmarried. 
His son Giles was married and 
had four children. His daughter 
Constanta was also married and 
had 12 children, one of them 
being married, (b) 


(al) 2 Mf. 12-17. 

(a2) 2 ib. 117. 

(b) Bradford’s History of Ply- 




2 




V 


STEPHEN 1 AND < 
“All that we know of Stephen 
Hopkins and his family before 
they arrived at Gape God is con¬ 
tained in these brief statements 
from Mourt’s Relation and Brad¬ 
ford’s History. He came from 
London, had been married twice, 
had two children by each wife 
and brought two servants. These 
meagre facts are the only ones yet 
discovered which are supported 
by absolutely trustworthy con¬ 
temporary evidence. Much specu¬ 
lation regarding his early life has 
been indulged in by various writ¬ 
ers, but all have failed to pro¬ 
duce from contemporary sources 
conclusive evidence of the sound¬ 
ness of their claims.” (c) 


mouth Plantation, Davis’s edition, 
408, 411, 412; 1 Mayflower 

Descendant (hereinafter cited as 
Mf.), 10, 13, 14, 103; 3 ib. 46; 5 
ib. 47-53. Gov. Bradford’s ac¬ 
count of the Mayflower passengers 
and their issue was written be¬ 
tween Feb. 24 and March 24, 1650- 
51 (1 Mf. 161-163). See also 2 
ib. 114-119, for Stephen 1 Hopkins 
and some of his children. Mourt’s 
Relation (Dexter’s ed., 1865), 44; 3 
Mf. 46; 5 ib. 47. 

(c) 5 ib. 47. 


rLES 9 HOPKINS 

His bringing two servants shows 
that he was one of the well-to-do 
of the pilgrims. The facts here¬ 
inafter given from contemporary 
records will show that he was a 
man of energy, courage and ability 
and one of the most prominent 
and useful men in the colony. He 
was one ol the earliest freemen 
of Plymouth (cl) and was one of 
the assistants to the ' governor 
from 1633 to 1637. He was en¬ 
gaged in trade, selling liquors and 
various other articles. He was 
charged at times with abuse of 
his traffic in liquors and with 
selling liquors and other articles 
at excessive rates, according to 
the views of the period, but he 
never lost the confidence of the 
leading men. He was not without 
kindness of heart, as appears from 
his petitioning for the release of 
his servants from cruel punish¬ 
ment. (c2) 

(cl) 8 Plym. Gol. Rees. 173. 

(c2) June 18, 1621, Doty and 
Litster fought a duel with sword 
and dagger. Both were wounded, 
one in the hand and the other in 

D Gl. A 4 0 6 5 8 2 ^ 


JUL I 1915 





MAYFLOWER 

He apparently boarded the May¬ 
flower in London with his family 
about the end of June, 1620, for 
on the arrival of the Speedwell at 
Southampton from Holland about 
July 2 she found the Mayflower 
there, having arrived with her 
passengers from London. They 
sailed from Southampton August 
5, but by reason of the claimed 
unsafety of the Speedwell, they 
put into Dartmouth. After some 
repairs, they put to sea again, but 
after they had got “above 100 
leagues without the Lands End”, 
the master of the Speedwell com¬ 
plained that his ship was very 


the thigh. They were sentenced 
by the whole company to have 
their heads and feet tied together 
and so to lie for 24 hours without 
meat or drink, “but within an 
hour, because of their great pains, 
at their own & their master’s 
humble request, upon promise of 
better carriage, they are released 
by the governor.” (Chronological 
History of New England, by 
Thomas Prince, ed. of 1826, 190, 

191.) Doty d. at Plymouth Aug. 
23, 1655, leaving issue. (3 Mf. 87.) 
Litster, after the termination of 
his service, went to Virginia and 
d. there before 1651. (Bradford, 
414.) 


PASSENGERS 3 

leaky, and after consultation, both 
ships put into Plymouth. Here it 
was decided that the Speedwell 
should not proceed. Some of the 
passengers returned to London, 
and the rest sailed on the May¬ 
flower on the 6th of September, 
reaching what is now Province- 
town harbor on the 11th of No¬ 
vember. (d) On that day he signed 
the compact of government on 
board the Mayflower, his name 
being 14th on the list of sign¬ 
ers, (e) 

Nov. 15, 1620, 16 armed men 

were set ashore, “under the con¬ 
duct of Captaine Miles Standish, 
unto whom was adjoyned for 
counsell and advise, William Brad¬ 
ford, Stephen Hopkins, and Ed¬ 
ward Tilley.” They made a voy¬ 
age of discovery, saw some In¬ 
dians who fled from them, ob¬ 
tained some corn that had been 
buried in the earth, and found a 

(d) New England’s Memorial 

(Lord’s ed., 1903) 5, 6, 10, 11. 

Mourt’s Rel. 1, 3; Bradford, 

78-80, 87, 88; 1 Mf. 86. 

(e) Mourt’s Rel. 6-8; 1 Mf. 79. 




4 STEPHEN 1 AND GILES 8 HOPKINS 


trap for deer, as Stephen Hop¬ 
kins informed them, in which 
William Bradford was caught. 
They returned to the ship on 
the 17th.(f) 

On the 6th of December Stephen 
Hopkins (described as of London) 
in the company of 17 other men, 
Capt. Standish at the head, started 
on a second voyage of discovery, 
with the shallop, which lasted five 
or six days, during which they 
had an encounter with the Indi¬ 
ans. They entered Plymouth bay 
and landed on the 11th of Decem¬ 
ber. (g) 

The Mayflower went to Ply¬ 
mouth on December 16, and 
shortly thereafter the work 
of erecting buildings and landing 
the passengers and goods was 
started, (h) 

February 17, 1620-21, two Indians 
appeared on the top of a hill and 
signalled for the settlers to come 
to them. Capt. Standish and 

(f) Mourt’s Rel., 13-27. 

(g) lb. 43-59. 

(h) Mourt’s Rel. 60, et. seq. 


Stephen Hopkins were sent 
towards them, but the Indians 
disappeared, (i) » 

March 16, 1620-21, Samoset came 
into Plymouth and that night was 
lodged and watched in Stephen 
Hopkins’s house.(j) 

July 2, 1621, Stephen Hopkins 
and Edward Winslow were sent 
by Gov. Carver on a mission to 
Massasoit, with whom the gov¬ 
ernor had made a treaty. They 
visited the chief at his residence 
within the ancient territory of 
Swansea, Mass., and in the pres¬ 
ent town of Warren, R. I., and 
had a satisfactory interview. They 
had the assistance of Tisquantum 
(Squanto). On their return, after 
considerable hardships, they ar¬ 
rived at Plymouth on the 7th of 
July.(k) 

In 1623 Stephen Hopkins re¬ 
ceived 6 acres in the division of 
lands, his allotment lying on “the 

(i) Mourt’s Rel. 81. 

(j) lb. 82-85. 

(k) lb. 98-111; New England’s 
Memorial, 31; Bradford, 117. 




MAYFLOWER 

South side of the brook to the 
woodward opposite to the” lots 
“on the South side of the brooke 
to the baywards.” Between him 
and John Howland were the lands 
of ‘‘Hobamakan Indian.(l) 

May 22, 1627, it was decided that 
the cows and goats belonging to 
the company should be divided 
and kept for 10 years at the care 
and expense of those to whom 
they were allotted, and that the 
old stock and half the increase 
should remain for common use 
to be divided at the end of the 
term “or otherwise as ocation 
falleth out.” The other half of 
the increase was to belong to the 
allottees, (m) 

The 7th lot fell to Stephen Hop¬ 
kins and his company, which be¬ 
sides himself consisted of his 
wife Elizabeth, his children Giles, 
Caleb and Deborah, Nicholas and 
Constance Snow, William and 

(l) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 4; 1 Mf. 
227-230; New England’s Memorial, 
31. 

(m) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 9; 1 Mf. 
148-154. 


PASSENGERS 5 

Frances Palmer, William Palmer, 
Jr., John Billington, Sr., Helen 
Billington and Francis Billington. 
To this lot fell a black weaning 
calf and the calf “of this yeare 
to come of the black Cow, wch 
fell to John Shaw & his Com- 
panie.” The company was to 
have no interest in these two 
calves, but only half their in¬ 
crease. This lot also received two 
she goats, ‘‘which goats they 
posses on the like terms which 
others doe their cattell.”(n) 
Damaris Hopkins was the 13th 
in Samuel Fuller’s or the 8th 
company. This company received 
a red heifer and two she goats, (o) 
Mr. Edward Winslow, who had 
returned to England on business 
of the colony, came back on the 
Charity in 1624, bringing three 
heifers and a bull, the first cattle 
in the colony, (p) 

Gov. Bradford speaks of this 
division of the cattle as follows: 


(n) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 11. 

(o) lb. 11, 12. 

(p) Bradford, 117, 166. 




6 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES 2 HOPKINS 


“And first accordingly the few 
catle which they had were devided, 
which arose to this proportion; a 
cowe to 6. persons or shars, and 
2. goats to the same, which were 
first equalised for age and good- 
nes, and then lotted for; single 
persons consorting with others, as 
they thought good, and smaler 
familys likewise; and swine though 
more in number, yet by the same 
rule.”(q) 

In 1627, before the division of 
the cattle, an agreement was made 
by which William Bradford, Gapt. 
Miles Standish and Isaac Allerton 
and such as they should join with 
them were among other things 
to discharge the colony of all 
debts due by it and to have for 
six years the trade of the colony. 
Among 27 who signed this agree¬ 
ment on the part of the colonists, 
the name of Stephen Hopkins 
stands second, following that of 
William Brewster.(r) 

(q) Bradford, 217. 

(r) 6 Mf. 145, 146; Gov. Brad¬ 
ford’s Letter Book, Colls, of the 
Mass. Hist. Soc., 1st ser., vol. 3, 
pp. 59-61; 5 Mf. 5-7. 


Jan. 2, 1631-2, he was appointed 
one of the assessors of taxes, (rl) 

In 1633 Stephen Hopkins is 
named in a list of the freemen 
of Plymouth, (s) 

Jan. 1, 1632-3, he was chosen 
one of the council for the en¬ 
suing year, Edward Winslow being 
chosen governor, (t) Jan. 10 of 
the same year he was a member 
of a court that tried a servant 
who had run away. The servant 
was privately whipped before the 
court, (u) 

In 1633 he was assessed to pay 
a tax of £1 7s., only five persons 
being assessed at a greater sum, 
of whom Isaac Allerton was to 
pay £3 11s. and Gov. Edward 
Winslow, £2 5s. (v) 

July 1, 1633, it was ordered that 
at or before the last of the next 
August Stephen Hopkins divide 
with six others “the medow 
ground in the bay equally, ac- 

(rl) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 9. 

(s) lb. 3. 

(t) lb. 5. 

(u) lb. 7. 

(v) lb. 9. 




MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 7 


cording to the proporcon of shares 
formerly devided to the pur¬ 
chasers.” It was also provided 
that he mow where he did the 
last year.(w) 

Oct. 24, 1633, Mr. Stephen 

Hopkins with Mr. John Doane 
took an inventory of the 
kins was appointed with Mr. John 
Doane to take an inventory of the 
goods and chattels of Godbert 
Godhertson and Zarah, his wife, 
deceased, (x) 

Nov. 25, 1633, with Gapt. Miles 
Standish he was made admin¬ 
istrator of the estate of John 
Thorp of Duxbury,(y) who owed 
him £5 7s. for various particu¬ 
lars, (z) 

Jan. 1, 1633-4, he was chosen 
assistant to the governor, (a) 

Jan. 2, 1633-4, he and John Jen¬ 
ny were the appraisers of the 
estate of Samuel Fuller, the eld- 


(w) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 14, 15. 

(x) lb. 19; 1 Mf. 154. 

(y) lb. 20. 

(z) 1 Mf. 160. 

(a) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 21. 


er, which included about thirty 
books, (b) 

In 1634 he was one of the asses¬ 
sors of taxes and was to pay £1 
10s., only two persons being as¬ 
sessed to a higher sum, viz. Ed¬ 
ward Winslow and Mr. William 
Collier £2 5s. each.(c) 

Oct. 1, 1634, he was appointed 
the first of a committee to treat 
with the existing partners as to 
the future management of the 
trade, (d) 

Oct. 2, 1634, he and Robert 
Hicks took the inventory of the 
goods of Stephen Deans, (e) 

Jan. 1, 1634-5, he was chosen an 
assistant, and entered upon his 
office the 3d of March, (f) 

Jan. 5, 1635-6, he was chosen 
assistant, and took the oath March 

Mg) 

(b) 2 Mf. 8; 1 Plym. Col. Wills, 

22 . 

(c) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 26, 27. 

(d) lb. 31. 

(e) 2 Mf. 87; 1 Plym. Col. Wills, 
26. 

(f) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 32, 33. 

(g) lb. 36, 37. 




8 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES* HOPKINS 


March 14, 1635-6, he was author¬ 
ized to mow the marsh between 
Thomas Clarke and George Sowle, 
and it was ordered that he and 
Clarke have the marsh up the 
river as formerly, (h) 

June 7, 1636, John Tisdale, yeo¬ 
man, brought an action of battery 
against Mr. Hopkins, assistant to 
the government, by whom he 
alleged he was dangerously 
wounded. Hopkins was fined £5 
sterling to the use of the King, 
“whose peace he had broken, wch 
he ought after a special manner 
to have kept,” and was adjudged 
to pay 40s. to the plaintiff.(i) 

Nov. 7, 1636, a way between his 
land and that of Thomas Pope, 
Richard Clough and Richard 
Wright, “at the fishing point, neer 
Slowly Field,” is mentioned, (j) 

In a list of freemen, dated 
March 7, 1636-7, he is styled gen¬ 
tleman. (k) 


(h) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 41. 

(i) lb. 41,42. 

(j) lb. 46. 

(k) lb. 52. 


Stephen Hopkins was an as¬ 
sistant Jan. 3, 1636-7. On the 
same date he was made one of a 
committee to arrange an agree¬ 
ment with “those that have the 
trade in theire hands” and report 
to the court. (1) 

March 7, 1636-7, it was ordered 
that those who then had the trade 
of beaver, corn and beads, etc., 
with the Indians should hold it 
until the beginning of June, and 
in the meantime a committee was 
appointed, of which Mr. Hopkins 
was one, to consider propositions 
and ways “so as the said trade 
may be still continued to the ben¬ 
efit of the collony’.’(m) 

March 20, 1636-7, action was 

taken as to the use of the hay 
grounds and Mr. Hopkins was 
made one of a committee to view 
those grounds between the Eel 
river and the town of Plymouth, 
that each man might be assigned 
a proper portion. He and Thomas 


(l) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 25, 26. 

(m) lb. 54. 




MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 


Clark were given the hay ground 
they had the past year.(n) 

May 10, 1637, a jury impanelled 
for the purpose rendered a ver¬ 
dict (which was delivered to the 
General Court July 7, 1637) laying 
out highways to the Eel river 
from Plymouth, which mentions 
Mr. Hopkins’s house, one of the 
ways passing it on the west.(o) 
June 7, 1637, he with the gov¬ 
ernor and assistants and other 
persons formed a committee to 
consider how the trade in beaver, 
etc., (which was likely to go into 
decay) might be upheld.(p) 

On the same date the committee 
of which Mr. Hopkins was a mem¬ 
ber reported that the expenses of 
the Pequot service would amount 
to £200, of which £100 was to be 
paid by Plymouth and £50 each 
by Duxbury and Scituate.(q) 
Among the names of those 
entered June 7, 1637, who willing- 

(n) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 55, 57. 

(o) lb. 59, 60. 

(p) lb. 62. 

(q) lb. 


ly offered themselves to assist the 
people of Massachusetts Bay and 
Connecticut “in their warrs 
against the Pequin(ql) Indians, in 
reveng of the innocent blood of 
the English wch the sd Pequins 
have barbarously shed, and refuse 
to give satisfaccon for,” were Mr. 
Stephen Hopkins and his two sons 
Caleb and Giles, (r) The soldiers 
who volunteered for the Pequot 
war were, however, not required 
to take the field. 

On the same date Mr. Hopkins 
for the town of Plymouth was 
one of two men who, together 
with the governor and assistants, 
were to form a board to assess 
the inhabitants for the expenses 
of that war.(r) 

July 17, 1637, Stephen Hopkins 
sold for £60 lawful money of Eng¬ 
land, to be paid one half on May 
1, 1638, and one half Sept. 29, 
1638, to George Boare of Scituate 
his messuage, houses, tenements 


(ql) Pequot. 

(r) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 61. 




10 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES 2 HOPKINS 


and outhouses at the Broken 
wharf towards the Eel river, to¬ 
gether with the six shares of land 
thereunto belonging, containing 
120 acres, (s) 

October 2, 1637, he was ap¬ 
pointed one of a committee for 
the town of Plymouth to act with 
the governor and assistants and a 
committee from Eel river, Jones 
river and Duxbury in agreeing 
upon an equal course in the 
division of about 500 acres of 
meadow between the Eel river and 
South river, (t) 

On the same date he was on a 
jury.(u) 

Oct. 2, 1637, he was charged 

with suffering men to drink in 
his house on the Lord’s day before 
the meeting was ended, and also 
on the Lord’s day, both before 
and after the meetings, servants 
and others to drink more than 
for ordinary refreshing. This 
complaint was adjourned to the 
next court and was subsequently 
withdrawn. On the same day he 
was fined 40s. for suffering 
servants and others to sit drink¬ 
ing in his house contrary to the 
orders of the court and to play 
at “shovell” board, and to com¬ 
mit similar misdemeanors. This 
fine was subsequently released.(v) 
Nov. 13, 1637, the estate of William 
Palmer owed him £1 12s.(w) Jan. 
2, 1637-8, he was presented by 
the grand jury for suffering ex¬ 


(s) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 21. 

(t) 1 Plym. Col Rees. 67. 

(u) 7 Plym. Col. Rees. 7. 

(v) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 68. 

, (w) 2 Mf. 148, 151; 1 Plym. Col. 

Wills, 29. 


cessive drinking in his house and 
was acquitted, (x) 

Feb. 5, 1637-8, he requested a 
grant of lands towards the Six 
Mile brook, (y) 

June 5, 1638, he was presented 
and fined for selling beer for 2d. 
a quart not worth one penny a 
quart, and also for selling wine 
“at such excessive rates, to the 
oppressing & impovishing of the 
colony.” (z) 

August 7, 1638, the following 
entry appears: 

“Liberty is granted to Mr. 
Steephen Hopkins to erect a house 
at Mattacheese, and cutt hey there 
this yeare to winter his cattle, 
pvided that it be not to wthdraw 
him from the towne of Ply¬ 
mouth.” (a) Mattacheese was af¬ 
terwards called Yarmouth. 

Sept. 4, 1638, he was fined £5 
upon two presentments against 
him the last court and three this 
court, for selling wine, beer 
strong waters and nutmegs at 
excessive rates, (b) 

Nov. 30, 1638, for £6 sterling he 
sold to Josias Cooke his 6 acres 
of land “lying on the South side 
of the Towne brooke of Plymouth 
to the woodward.” (c) 

Feb. 4, 1638-9, it was ordered 
concerning Mr. Stephen Hopkins 
and his servant Dorothy Temple 
that as by her indenture she had 
about two years to serve him, he 
(c) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 39. 


(x) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 75. 

(y) lb. 76. 

(z) lb. 87. 

(a) lb. 93. 

(b) lb. 97. 




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should keep her and her child, or 
provide that she should be kept 
with food and raiment, during 
said term. If he refused to do 
so, the colony was to provide for 
her and Mr. Hopkins was to pay 
it. He evidently refused, for the 
same day he was committed to 
ward for contempt of the court, 
to remain committed until he 
should either receive his servant 
Dorothy Temple or provide for 
her elsewhere at his own charge 
during the term she had yet to 
serve him.(d) 

It appears that the father of 
Dorothy Temple’s child was Arthur 
Peach, who had been executed for 
murder and highway robbery be¬ 
fore its birth, and that Feb. 8, 
1638-9, John Holmes of Plymouth 
agreed with Mr. Hopkins to hold 
him and the colony harmless from 
the said Dorothy Temple and her 
child, she to serve with him the 
residue of her time as provided 
in her indenture with Mr. Hop¬ 
kins. Mr. Hopkins seems to have 
paid Mr. Holmes three pounds 
sterling and other considerations 
for the agreement, (dl) 

Dec. 3, 1639, he was presented 
for selling a looking glass for 
16d., which could be bought in 
Massachusetts for 9d., and the 
matter was held over for further 
information. On the same date he 
was fined £3 for selling strong 
water without license, (e) 

June 1, 1640, he appears to have 
received a grant of land.(f) 


(d) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. Ill, 112. 
(dl) lb. 113. 

(e) lb. 137. 

(f) lb. 154. 


PASSENGERS 11 

Nov. 2, 1640, he was granted 12 
acres of meadow in the North 
meadow by Jones river, (g) 

March 3, 1639-40, the General 

Court had granted to the “pur¬ 
chasers or old comers” the privi¬ 
lege of making choice of two or 
three plantations for themselves 
and their heirs, and on Dec. 1, 
1640, the said “purchasers or old 
comers” announced that they had 
chosen three tracts, one of which 
stretched across Cape Cod from 
Yarmouth to 3 miles east of 
Namskaket. Among the 53 pur¬ 
chasers or old comers of Ply¬ 
mouth Colony was Stephen Hop¬ 
kins. (gl) 

Dec. 7, 1641, he had a suit 
against James Luxford for £12 
10s. (h) 

Jan. 4, 1641-2, he is mentioned 
as one of the contributors (a six¬ 
teenth part) to the “building of 
a Bark of 40 or 50 Tunn, es¬ 
timated at the Charge of 2001i.”(i) 

April 5, 1642, this entry appears: 
“Jonathan Hatch, by the consent 
of the Court, is appoynted to dwell 
wth Mr. Steephen Hopkins, & the 
said Mr. Hopkins to have a speciall 
care of him.”(j) 

June 8, 1642, William Chase 

mortgaged to him his house and 
8 acres of upland in Yarmouth 
“and six acres more lying at the 
Stony Cove,” to secure the pay- 


(g) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 166. 

(gl) 2 Plym. Col. Rees. 4, 177; 
11 ib. 34, 35. 

(h) 7 Plym. Col. Rees. 27. 

(i) 2 Plym. Col. Rees. 31. 

(j) Ib. 38. 




12 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES 2 HOPKINS 


ment to Hopkins of £5 Nov. 1, 
1642. (k) 

Nov. 7, 1643, Mr. Stephen Hop¬ 
kins was the foreman of a jury.(l) 

August 20, 1644, Capt. Miles 

Standish and Mr. William Brad¬ 
ford deposed to his will, and his 
son Caleb Hopkins, appointed 
executor, produced an inventory 
on oath of his goods and chat¬ 
tels, (m) 

Nov. 21, 1644, Caleb Hopkins as 
executor received the mortgage of 
a black cow from Francis Billing- 
ton to secure the payment of 
£3 sterling on or before Dec. 1, 
1645, which Billington owed the 
estate of Stephen Hopkins, (n) 

Sept. 26, 1645, Josias Cooke sold 
six acres of land which he had 
lately bought of Mr. Stephen Hop¬ 
kins, (nl) 

June 29, 1652, provision was 

made for the public use of the 
house that was Mr. Hopkins’s, (o) 

Land that Mr. Stephen Hopkins 
had owned in Plymouth is re¬ 
ferred to in a deed dated June 
24, 1685. (p) 

His will was proved August 
20, 1644. (q) In his will he 

mentions his deceased wife and 
requests to be buried near her. 
He mentions his son Giles Hop¬ 
kins, who he says is in 
Yarmouth, and the latter’s son 


(k) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 83. 

(l) 7 Plym. Col. Rees. 36. 

(m) 2 Plym. Col. Rees. 75. 

(n) lb. 78, 79. 

(nl) 12 ib. 114. 

(o) 3 Plym. Col. Rees. 14. 

(p) 6 Plym. Col. Rees. 162, 163. 

(q) 1 Plym. Col. Wills, 61-63; 
2 Mf. 12-17. 


Stephen, his daughters Constance, 
wife of Nicholas Snow, Deborah, 
Damaris, Ruth, Elizabeth, and his 
son Caleb, whom he makes his 
heir. 

He gives Giles his great bull 
then in the hands of Mrs. War¬ 
ren (r) and to his grandson 
Stephen 20s. due from Mrs. War¬ 
ren for its hire, to Constance his 
mare, to Deborah a cow and her 
calf and half of another cow, to 
Damaris a cow and a calf and 
half of another cow with Deborah, 
to Ruth a cow and her calf, a bull 
and half of another cow and to 
Elizabeth a cow and her calf, the 
other half of the cow with Ruth, 
and a yearling heifer. To his 
four unmarried daughters he gave 
equally all the movable goods in 
his house, including a silver 
spoon to each, and provided that 
if any one of them should die 
unmarried, her share should go to 
the survivors. To Caleb he gave 
all his right, title and interest in 
and to his house and lands in 
Plymouth and in and to any lands 
that might come to him or he 
might have the right to by reason 
of being one of the first comers. 
He also gave Caleb a yoke of oxen 
then in the hands of Richard 
Church and their hire, and all the 
debts due him. He provided that 
his said four daughters should 
have the right to remain in his 
house in Plymouth till married. 
He made his son Caleb his exec¬ 
utor and Caleb and Capt. Miles 
Standish jointly supervisors. 


(r) Widow of Richard Warren, 
a Mayflower passenger (2 Mf. 12; 
3 ib. 48, 49). 




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The will also provides: 

“It is also my will that my Ex- 
eeutr & Supervisor shall advise 
devise and dispose by the best 
wayes & meanes they cann for the 
disposeing in marriage or other 
wise for the best advancnt of the 
estate of the forenamed Deborah 
Damaris Ruth and Elizabeth Hop¬ 
kins.” 

The witnesses were Capt. Miles 
Standish and Gov. William Brad¬ 
ford. 

The inventory of his goods and 
chattels, taken by Capt. Miles 
Standish, Mr. Thomas Willet and 
Mr. John Doane, amounted to £128 
16s. 7 d., and included a mare, 
household goods, wearing apparel, 
cattle, two pigs, some poultry, 
6d. in money, “Divers bookes” val¬ 
ued at 12s., debts due him 
amounting to £17 6s., &c. 

His will and inventory are 
printed in full in The Mayflower 
Descendant (vol. 2, pp. 12-17). 

The movable estate of Mr. 
Stephen Hopkins was apportioned 
to his four daughters by Capt. 
Miles Standish and Caleb Hopkins 
in 1644. Deborah, Damaris and 
Ruth’s shares, consisting of various 
articles, are set out.(s) 

Children. 

By his first wife, born in England: 

Giles, (t) b. 

Constanta (Constance), b. ; 
m. at Plymouth between 1623 
and June 1, 1627, Nicholas Snow, 
who came over in the Anne in the 
latter part of July, 1623, (u) and 


(s) 1 Plym. Col. Wills, 65; 4 

Mf. 115, 116. 

(t) Also written Gyles. 

(u) 1 Mf. 229, 230; 2 ib. 179. His 


13 

who d. in Eastham Nov, 15, 1676. 
She d. in Eastham about the mid¬ 
dle of October, 1677.(v) 

By his second wife: 
Damaris, b. in England ; 
d. in Plymouth before her father 
and after the division of cattle. 
May 22, 1627, when she was in 
Samuel Fuller’s company, which 
drew the 8th lot.(w) 

Oceanus, b. on board the May¬ 
flower between Sept. 6 and Nov. 
11, 1620; d. before the division of 
cattle, May 22, 1627. (x) 

Caleb, b. in Plymouth prob¬ 
ably before June 6, 1623; became 
a seaman and died at Barbados 
before 1651. (y) He was made 
the residuary devisee and legatee 
and executor by his father’s will 
in 1644. Caleb Hopkins was one 
of those in Plymouth between 16 
and 60 able to bear arms in 
August, 1643. (z) In 1637 he volun¬ 
teered in the Pequot war, as above 
stated. In 1644 he conveyed a 
part of his father’s lands to his 
brother Giles, as seen below. 

Deborah, b. in Plymouth, pos¬ 
sibly before Caleb; m. Andrew 
Ring, April 23, 1646.(a) She con¬ 
sented to a conveyance of land by 
her husband Feb. 13, 1659-60. (al) 


will and inventory are in 3 Mf. 
167-174. 

(v) 3 ib. 167. 

(w) 1 Mf. 152; 5 Mf. 47-52. 

(x) 5 Mf. 48, 50. 

(y) Bradford, 411, 412; 1 Mf. 13, 
161-163; 4 ib. 114; 5 ib. 50, 51. 

Cz) 8 Plym. Col. Rees. 187, 188. 
(a) 2 Plym. Col. Rees. 98. See 
4 Mf. 193-198; 6 ib. 95-97; 13 Mf. 
86 . 

(al) 14 Mf. 142. 




14 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES 2 HOPKINS 


Damaris, b. in Plymouth ; 
m. there Jacob 8 (Francis 1 ) 
Cooke after June 10, 1646, 

date of his marriage set¬ 
tlement; (b) d. before Nov. 18, 
1669, when Jacob Cooke married 
again, (c) 

Ruth, b. in Plymouth ; 

d. unmarried before Oct. 1, 1659, 
the date of the settlement of her 


(b) June 10, 1646, the settlement 

of Jacob Cooke, in view of his 
intended marriage to Damaris 
Hopkins, was made by his parents, 
Francis Cooke and Hester, his 
wife. They gave their son upon 
his marriage about 100 acres of 
land with meadow lying at the 
North river, % of the land that 
shall fall to Francis by any 
division of the Purchase Land or 
that shall be due him as one of 
the first comers, one ox, one cow, 
one calf and the foal of Francis’s 
mare. It was also provided that 
Jacob might build a house on 
Francis’s land at Rockynook and 
if he should think it convenient 
or should be compelled to remove, 
the said Jacob l> at the Judgment 
of honest and Judicial men shall 
have satisfaction for any building 
or buildings fence or fences which 
otherwise might prove Damage to 
the said Jacob.” It was also pro¬ 
vided that upon the decease of 
the longer survivor of Francis and 
his wife “the said Jacob or his 
heires shall have the teame with 
all the furniture belonging there¬ 
unto.” Witnesses: Miles Stan- 
dish, James Hurst and John How¬ 
land. (2 Plym. Col. Deeds, 35; 2 

Mf. 27, 28; 5 ib. 51.) 

(c) 3 Mf. 101, 105. 


sister Elizabeth’s estate, and be¬ 
fore Gov. Bradford wrote in 
1651. (d) Oct. 15, 1644, Richard 

Sparrow acknowledged that he had 
received one-half of a cow from 
Capt. Standish which belonged to 
Ruth Hopkins and agreed at the 
expiration of three years or 
sooner to pay Capt. Standish for 
Ruth Hopkins two year-old heif¬ 
ers or two year-old steers. On 
May 19, 1647, Capt. Standish 

acknowledged that he had received 
two young steers in full settle¬ 
ment. (e, f) 

Elizabeth, b. in Plymouth ; 
d. presumably before Sept. 29, 
1659, when her cattle were valued 
by John Freeman and Edward 
Bangs.(fl) It was agreed Nov. 30, 
1644, between Capt. Standish and 
Caleb Hopkins of the one part 
and Richard Sparrow of Ply¬ 
mouth of the other part that 
Sparrow should have her until 
she should marry or reach the 
age of 19 years. This provision 
was included in the agreement: 
“21y. In consideracon of the 
weaknes of the child and her 
inabillytie to prforme such ser¬ 
vice as may acquite their charges 
in bringing of her up and that 
shee bee not too much oppressed 
now in her childhood wth hard 
labour It is agreed that Richard 
Sparrow shall have putt into his 
hands her whole estate and to 
have the use of yt for the tyme 
of her continuance wth him. 
Onely one heiffer reserved wch is 


(d) 5 Mf. 52. 

(e, f) 1 Plym. Col. Wills, 66; 4 
Mf. 117. 

(fl) 4 Mf. 119. 




MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 


now in the hands of Gyles Hop¬ 
kins of Yarmouth.”(g) 

It was further provided that if 
“Goodwyfe Sparrow” should die, 
then Elizabeth Hopkins and her 
estate should be free to be dis¬ 
posed of as Capt. Standish and 
Caleb Hopkins should think best, 
but if Mrs. Sparrow’s death should 
occur within three years, then 
Sparrow was to have 12 months 
within which to return the estate, 
and if after three years, then 9 
months. It was further agreed 
that if Elizabeth should die, her 
estate was to return to Capt. 
Standish and Caleb Hopkins to be 
disposed of among the rest of her 
; sisters according to the will of 
Mr. Hopkins, provided that Spar¬ 
row should have 12 months to 
return it if her death occurred 
within three years, and nine 
months if it occurred after three 
years. 

The estate to be returned was 
£15 Is. 2d. and was to be returned 
in the following form: a milch 
cow, a feather bed and things 
belonging thereto, of the same 
value as they were delivered, and 
the rest, one half in wheat and 
one half in Indian corn. The 
agreement was witnessed by 
William Paddy and Thomas Willett. 

Oct. 5, 1656, Capt. Myles Stan¬ 
dish complained against Richard 
Sparrow of Eastham in behalf of 
Elizabeth Hopkins, demanding £20 


(g) On the margin of the page 
is this note: ‘‘the tearmes of this 
agreement are fully prformed by 
Richard Sparrow.” 

(h) 1 Plym. Col. Wills, 65; 4 

Mf. 116, 117. 


15 

damages for breach of an agree¬ 
ment made with Sparrow concern¬ 
ing said Elizabeth Hopkins. The 
parties settled the suit by an 
agreement in writing, (i) 

On Oct. 10, 1657, Elizabeth Hop¬ 
kins sold to Jacob Cooke of Ply¬ 
mouth “in consideration of a 
valluable sume to her alreddy 
satisfyed and fully paid” “all that 
her portion or prcell of meddow 
that shee hath in the great 
meddow att Joanses river viz ten 
acres of ffresh meddow bee it 
more or lesse lying betwixt the 
meddow of Capt: Thomas Willett 
and Mr. John Done runing from 
woodside to woodside.”(j) 

An inventory of her estate in 
the hands of Jacob Cooke and 
Andrew Ring was taken Oct. 6, 
1659, and verified by them, 
amounting to £26 14s. There was 
a small matter in the hands of 
Mrs. Standish. (k) Sept. 29, 1659, 
John Freeman and Edward Bangs 
appraised in the hands of Giles 
Hopkins, belonging to Elizabeth, 
one half of three steers, a poor 
calf, one very small poor cow and 
an old defective cow at £14 5s. (kl) 
On Oct. 5, 1659, it was agreed 
by Andrew Ring, Jacob Cooke and 
Giles Hopkins and ordered by the 
court “that in case Elizabeth hop- 
kins Doe Come Noe more”, the 
above mentioned cattle at their 
valuation should be the portion of 
Giles Hopkins in the estate of 


(i) 7 Plym. Col. Rees. 80. 

(j) 2 Plym. Col. Deeds, pt. 1, p. 
196; 4 Mf. 118. 

(k) The last known mention of 
Barbara Standish. 

(kl) 4 Mf. 119. 




16 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES* HOPKINS 


Elizabeth and that Andrew Ring 
and Jacob Cooke should remain 
in peaceable possession of what 
they had of her estate.(1) 


SECOND GENERATION. 

Giles* (Stephen 1 ) Hopkins, b. in 
England ; came over in the 

Mayflower in 1620; m. Oct. 9, 1639, 
Catherine (m) Whelden, probably 
daughter of Gabriel Whelden;(n) 
d. in Eastham between March 5, 
1688-9 (date of the codicil to his 
will), and April 16, 1690 (date of 
probate). His wife d. after the 
date of his codicil. He lived at 
first in Plymouth. In the latter 
part of 1638 or very early in 
1639 he removed to Yarmouth, 
where his father had erected a 
house and pastured cattle, (o) 
This house was the first one 
known to have been built by a 
white man in Yarmouth, (p) 

His house in Yarmouth was in 
the extreme N. W. of the town 
(now Yarmouthport) not far from 
the Barnstable line. Going E. 
from that line, it was the third 
house on the N. side of the 
road.(q) He took the oath of 
fidelity in Yarmouth.(r) He was 


(l) 2 Plym. Col. Wills, pt. 1, pp. 
90, 91; 4 Mf. 118, 119, 

(m) Also written Katherne and 
Catorne. 

(n) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 134; 13 

Mf. 85. See “Early Wheldens of 
Yarmouth,” by the compiler. 

(o) Aug. 7, 1638, Stephen Hop¬ 
kins obtained the right to do so. 

(p) Swift’s Old Yarmouth, 51. 

(q) 1 Otis’s Barn. Families, 484, 
486. 

(r) 8 Plym. Col. Rees. 185. 


of Yarmouth Oct. 28, 1644, when 
his brother Caleb conveyed land 
to him.(s) He later and probably 
shortly after removed to Nauset 
(later Eastham). He settled in 
the part of Eastham which is 
now Orleans, (t) 

June 7, 1637, while in Plymouth, 
he with his father and brother 
volunteered to serve in the Pequot 
war, but his services were not 
required, (u) 

Giles Hopkins Feb. 9, 1638-9, was 
one of the witnesses of the will 
of Peter Worden, Sr., of Yar¬ 
mouth, with Nicholas Simpkins 
and Hugh Tilly, and swore to it 
March 5, 1638-9, at Plymouth, (v) 

May 3, 1642, Walter Devell of 
Plymouth owed Giles Hopkins of 
Yarmouth 9 bushels of corn, for 
which suit was brought and ex¬ 
ecution taken out for £3 17s. 2d., 
which included 14 bushels due Mr. 
Hedge of Yarmouth and the costs 
of the suit.(w) 

May 12, 1642, Giles Hopkins of 
Yarmouth, planter, sold to Andrew 
Hallett, Jr., 10 acres of upland in 
the west field between the land of 
Nicholas Simpkins on the N. E. 
and the land of Robert Dennis on 
the S. W., with two acres of 
meadow adjoining at the N. W. 
end, “for and in consideration of 
two acres of upland and four acres 

(w) 7 Plym. Col. Rees. 29, 30. 
of meddow . . . lying and being 
in the prime feild in a furlong 
there called by the Name of 


(s) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 104. 

(t) Josiah Paine, Esq. 

(u) 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 61. 

(v) 1 Plym. Col. Wills, 33; 3 

Mf. 75, 76; 1 Plym. Col. Rees. 117. 







MAYFLOWER 

Jack Daw furlong late in the 
tenure and possession of yelver- 
ton Grow of yarmouth aforsaid 
and two steer calves to mee in 
hand paied att the sealling of 
these prsents and eighteen bush- 
ells of good and marchantable 
Indian Corne to bee paied, ten 
bushels therof att in or upon the 
last Day of November now next 
ensewing the Day of the^ Date 
heerof and the other eigh bushells 
att in or upon the last Day of 
November thence next enswing.”(x) 
March 7, 1642-3, Giles Hopkins 
is named as one of the surveyors 
of highways for Yarmouth.(y) 

Oct. 28, 1644, Caleb Hopkins, son 
and heir of Mr. Stephen Hopkins, 
conveyed to Giles Hopkins of 
Yarmouth, planter, 100 acres of 
those lands taken up for the 
purchasers of “Satuckquett,”(z) 
which lands accrued to said* 
Stephen as a purchaser, (a) 

June 4, 1650, he is named as one 
of the surveyors of highways for 
Nauset (later Eastham).(b) 

Oct. 3, 1654, Giles Hopkins in 
an action of defamation against 
William Leverich obtained judg¬ 
ment for £20 and 10s. 6d. costs of 
the suit.(c) 

He had owned about three acres 
of marsh meadow lying next to 
Green Harbor (Duxbury), which 


(x) 2 Plym. Col. Deeds, pt. 1, p. 
171; 10 Mf. 140. 

(y) 2 Plym. Col. Rees. 53. 

(z) Later in what is now Brew¬ 
ster. 

(a) 12 Plym. Col. Rees. 104. 

(b) 2 lb. 155. 

(c) 7 Plym. Col. Rees. 71, 72. 


PASSENGERS 17 

he had sold to Thomas Clarke be¬ 
fore Feb. 13, 1659-60. (d) 

June 3, 1662, and June 5, 1671, 
he is named as one of the sur¬ 
veyors of highways for East- 
ham.(e) 

In 1662 with Lt. Joseph Rogers 
and Josiah Cooke he had liberty 
to look out for land between 
Bridgewater and the bay line.(f) 
June 5, 1666, the court granted 
to Giles Hopkins, the Widow Mayo 
and Jonathan Sparrow a parcel of 
land near Eastham, being a small 
neck called Sampson’s Neck, and 
the waste land lying between the 
head of the fresh water pond and 
the westerly bounds of the Widow 
Mayo’s land and so down to the 
cove.(g) June 5, 1667, the court 
ordered Lt. Freeman to purchase 
this land, or hire it for the gran¬ 
tees, (h) 

He had the 8th lot in a tract in 
what is now West Brewster, east 
of (Juivet, which he owned as 
early as 1653 and which he sold 
Nov. 9, 1666, to John Wing of 
of Yarmouth in consideration of 
a mare, colt and other land.(i) 
Jan. 1, 1667-8, Giles Hopkins was 
on a jury of inquest upon the 
death of a child in Eastham and 
signed the verdict.(j) 


(d) 14 Mf. 143; 2 Plym. Col. 

Deeds, pt. 2, 31. 

(e) 4 Plym. Col. Rocs. 15; 5 ib. 

58. 

(f) Josiah Paine. 

(g) 4 Plym. Col. Rees. 129. 

(h) Ib. 152. 

(i) 3 Plym. Col. Deeds, 91; 
Deyo, 893, 894. 

(j) 4 Plym. Col. Rees. 177. 




18 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES 8 HOPKINS 


Aug. 21, 1672, he conveyed land 
in Eastham.(k) 

He owned at his death 1-3 of 
meadow or sedge ground in East- 
ham “on Pochey sedge flats or 
low medows neer Hog Hand.” Lt. 
Joseph Rogers and James Rogers 
owned the other 2-3. (1) 

His will was dated Jan. 19, 
1682-3. Both the will and codicil 
are signed with a mark. They 
are recorded in the Barnstable 
County Probate records, (m) and 
are printed in full in the May¬ 
flower Descendant, (n) 

He mentions his wife Catorne, 
his sons Stephen, William, Caleb 
and Joshua. His will gave to 
Stephen all his upland and 
meadow lying within what was 
later Harwich and half his cattle, 
on condition that he should 
after his (testator’s) decease “take 
ye care and oversight and main- 
taine my son William Hopkins 
during his natural Life in a com¬ 
fortable decent manner.” 

Lands N. and E. of those given 
to Stephen he gave to his sons 
Caleb and Joshua equally, but if 
either died without issue, his 
share was to go to the survivor. 

He gave to his wife and his son 
William the improvement of two 
acres of meadow lying at the 
head of Rock Harbor during the 
life of his wife and after her 
decease, he gave one half of it 
to his son William for his life, 
and after the death of his wife 
and his son William, he gave the 


(k) 5 Plym. Col. Deeds, 252. 

(l) 11 Mf. 5. 

(m) Vol. 1, p. 32. 

(n) Yol. 1, pp. 110-113. 


two acres to his son Joshua and 
his heirs. 

He also gave to his son Joshua 
a parcel of meadow lying at the 
mouth of Rock Harbor and to his 
son Caleb a parcel of meadow 
lying at Little Namskaket. 

He gave one half of his land 
and orchard by his house to his 
son Joshua and the other half and 
his dwelling house to his wife for 
her life and after her death to 
Joshua. 

He gave a pair of plow irons to 
his son Caleb and another pair 
and his cart and wheels to his 
son Joshua. 

The will also contained the fol¬ 
lowing provision: 

“I give unto my wife ye other 
half of my stock and moveables 
I say to my wife and my son 
William or what part of ye move¬ 
ables my wife shall see cause to 
bestow on my son William Hop¬ 
kins.” 

He made his son Stephen exec¬ 
utor. 

His codicil declared that where¬ 
as by the Providence of God his 
life had been prolonged and by 
reason of age and disability of 
body he was incapacitated from 
providing for the support of him¬ 
self and wife, “my son Stephen 
Hopkins from this time and for¬ 
ward shall possess and Injoy all 
my stock and moveable estate pro¬ 
vided he take effectual care of 
mine and my wifes Comfortable 
Support during our natural Lives.” 

The witnesses to the will were 
Jonathan Sparrow and Samuel 
Knowles and to the codicil, Mark 
Snow and Jonathan Sparrow. 



MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 19 


Children,(o) born no doubt the 
first four in Yarmouth and the 
rest in Eastham: 

Mary, b. in November, 1640; 
m. (p) Jan. 3, 1665-6, Samuel 3 

(Ralph 1 ) Smith; d. July 2, 1700.(q) 
d. July 2, 1700. (q) 

Stephen, b. in September, 1642. 
John, b. in 1643; d. being 3 
months old. 

Abigail, b. in October, 1644; m. 
William Merrick (Myrick) in 
Eastham May 23, 1667.(r) 

Deborah, b. in June, 1648; m. 
Josiah Cooke in Eastham, July 27, 
1668. (s) He was not the son of 
Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, (t) 
Caleb, b. in January, 1650-1; 
m. Mary Williams, daughter of 
Thomas Williams of Eastham; d. 
before May 22, 1728, at Truro, 
leaving issue, (u) 

Oct. 28, 1684, Caleb Hopkins was 
fined 20s. and the costs of prose¬ 
cution for breaking the King’s 
peace by striking John Smith in 
his own house on a Sabbath even¬ 
ing. (v) 

June 12, 1685, the Colonial treas¬ 
urer was debtor to the colony for 
a fine of £1 from Caleb Hopkins 
of Eastham. (w) 

At the July Court, 1685, Caleb 
Hopkins of Eastham, being ac¬ 


cused of supplying the Indians 
with strong liquor and “refuseing 
to give his oath for his cleareing 
according to law,” was fined £5 
silver money, to be committed to 
prison until the same should be 
paid. Afterward he requested to 
put in “security to traverse his 
conviction of said fact the next 
Court, & bee tryed by a jury,” 

. whereupon he was permitted to 
'give bond in the sum of £10 with 
the security of William Ring of 
Plymouth in the sum of £5, con¬ 
ditioned that he would appear on 
the last Tuesday of the next 
October. He was then found guil¬ 
ty, and paid his fine of £4 10s. 
in money, (x) 

Ruth, b. in June, 1653; perhaps 
m. Job Winslow, (y) 

Joshua, b. in June, 1657; 
m. May 26, 1681, Mary Cole, 

who d. March 1, 1733-4. (z) 

He d. about 1738. He was 
admitted a freeman June 3, 
1690. (a) His son Elisha, b. in 
1688, lived in Chatham.(b) 

William, b. Jan. 9, 1660-1.(c) 
Elizabeth, b. in November, 
1664, and d. being a month old. 


THIRD GENERATION. 
Stephen 8 (Giles 2 , Stephen 1 ! Hop¬ 
kins, b. in September, 1642; m.(d) 


(o) Eastham Rees.; 7 Mf. 236, 237. 

(p) 8 Mf. 17, 18. 

(q) 12 Mf. 116. See also lb. 112- 
117, 236-239. 

(r) 8 Plym. Col. Rees. 56. 

(S) 5 Jtff. 185, 186; Eastham 

Rees.; 8 Mf. 88. 

(t) 3 Mf. 97, 103. 

(u) 8 Mf. 240-243. 

(v) 6 Plym. Col. Rees. 145. 

(w) 8 ib. 164, 165. 


(x) 6 ib. 171, 172, 175. 

(y) 45 N. Y. Genealogical and 
and Biog. Record, 8. 

(z) 6 Mf. 204; 7 ib. 15. 

(a) 6 Plym. Col. Rees. 239. 

(b) 21 N. E. Reg. 213; 7 Mf. 15; 
16 ib. 35-39, 105. See 15 ib. 175. 

(c) 8 Plym. Col. Rees. 28. 

(d) Eastham Rees.; 7 Mf. 16; 8 
Plym. Col. Rees. 58. 





20 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES 8 HOPKINS 


1st in Eastham Mary (dau. of 
Wm.) Myrick, May 23, 1667; d. 

in Harwich Oct. 10, 1718. (e) He 

married 2d Bethiah Atkins April 
7 or 9, 1701. (f) She d. in Har¬ 
wich March 25, 1726. (fl) He is 
styled Mr. in the town records. 

Nov. 28, 1664, Stephen Hopkins 
brought into Eastham two pounds 
of powder and one gallon of 
liquor, (g) 

In 1675 Stephen Hopkins, Sr., 
was a freeman of Eastham ad¬ 
mitted since 1655. (h) 

Stephen Hopkins was a freeman 
in Eastham in 1683-4.(i) In 1695 
he was an inhabitant of East¬ 
ham. (j) His wife was admitted 
to the Harwich church Sept. 14, 
1701. (k) He was admitted Dec. 26, 
1708, and baptized Jan. 2, 1708-9.(1) 

After the death of his father 
and before 1701 he moved to land 
left by his father in Harwich, 
now the eastern part of Brew¬ 
ster, (m) In 1713 he was a lot 
owner in “Sipsons Land” in East 
Brewster, (n) May 18, 1711, he 

was among the purchasers from 
John Quason and other Indians of 
a large tract of land in Harwich 
and Brewster and on Monomoy 


(e) Har. Rees.; 6 Mf. 56. 

(f) Eastham Rees.; 7 Mf. 16; 9 
ib. 9. 

(fl) Har. Rees.; 8 Mf. 35. 

(g) 4 Plym. Col. Rees. 100. 

(h) 2 Freeman’s Cape Cod, 367. 

(i) 8 Plym. Col. Rees. 202, 208. 

(j) 2 Freeman, 374. 

(k) 4 Mf. 245. 

(l) Ib. 247. 

(m) Deyo’s Barnstable County, 
895, 898, 909. 

(n) Ib. 834, 835. 


(Chatham) Great Beach, which 
purchase also included Strong 
Island in Pleasant Bay, now 
within the jurisdiction of Chat¬ 
ham. March 24, 1713-14, he was 
named as one of a committee to 
lay out the Harwich tract into 
lots and to pass on the rights of 
those who claimed prior title to 
lots therein. April 19, 1714, they 
met at the house of Nicholas 
Snow in Brewster and drew lots. 
In the region N. of the road from 
Chatham to Yarmouth Stephen 
Hopkins obtained the 5th and 10th 
lots and S. of that road the 10th 
and 13th lots.(o) In 1703 he was 
one of a committee to determine 
the boundaries of Harwich and 
Monomoyick (now Chatham) and 
he signed the report dated May 
28, 1703. (p) 

Children,(q) born in Eastham: 

Elizabeth, b. the last week in 
June, 1668. 

Stephen, b. July 15, 1670; m. 

May 19, 1692, Sarah Howes, (ql) 
They had issue.(q2) He d. April 
9, 1733, (q3) and she m. 2d Joseph 
Hawes of Yarmouth. (q4) 

Ruth, b. about the beginning 
of November, 1674. 

Judah, b. about the middle of 
January, 1677-8. 


(o) Deyo, 832-834; Records of Old 
Superior Court, No. 63,888. 

(p) 2 Freeman, 496. 

(q) Eastham Rees.; 7 Mf. 16; 8 
Plym. Col. Rees. 58. 

(ql) Eastham Rees.; 8 Mf. 16. 
(q2) Har. Rees.; 6 Mf. 82. 

(q3) Brewster Gravestone Rec¬ 
ords, 63. 

(q4) Har. Rees. Int. June 14, 
1746. 




MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 


Samuel, b. the middle of 
March, 1682-3. 

Nathaniel, b. about the middle 
of March, 1684-5. 

Joseph, b. in 1688. 

Benjamin, b. the middle of 
February, 1690-1. 

Mary, b. April 15, 1692. 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

Nathaniel 4 (Stephen*, Giles 2 , 
Stephen 1 ) Hopkins, b. about the 
middle of March, 1684-5, in East- 
ham; (r) m. Mercy, daughter of 
John and Hannah (Freeman) Mayo, 
May 26, 1707; (s) d. Sept. 13, 1766, 
in his 82d year. She was born 
April 23, 1688. (t) 

In 1725 he resided east of the 
meeting house in the part of Har¬ 
wich now Brewster, (u) In 1732 
he was one of the selectmen of 
Harwich.(ul) 

His will, dated March 25, 1765, 

and proved Oct. 21, 1766, mentions 
his wife Mercy, his daughters 

Elizabeth Crosby and Mercy White, 
his son Nathaniel, the two chil¬ 

dren, James and Mercy, of his son 
Samuel, deceased, and his sons 

David, Reuben and Theophilus. 


(r) 7 Mf. 16. John 3 Mayo was 
son of Capt. Samuel 2 and grand¬ 
son of Rev. John 1 Mayo. Hannah 
Freeman was the daughter of 
John 3 (Edmund 1 ) Freeman. Her 
mother was a daughter of Gov. 
Thomas Prence and granddaughter 
of Elder William Brewster. 

(s) Har. Rees.; 4 Mf. 178, 179. 

(t) Brewster Gravestone Rees. 
62. 

(u) 2 Freeman, 506. 

(ul) Deyo, 845. 


21 

Theophilus was made executor, (v) 
Children :(w) 

David, b. July 13, 1707. 

Jeremiah, b. March 14, 1708-9. 

Elizabeth, b. April 21, 1711. 

Nathaniel, b. Sept. 1, 1713. 

Bethiah, b. Aug. 19, 1715. 

Nathaniel, b. Sept. 15, 1717. 

Mercy, b. Feb. 21, 1719-20. 

Reuben, b. April 4, 1722. 

Samuel, b. Aug. 30, 1724. 

James, b. March 20, 1726-7. 

Theophilus, b. March 13, 
1728-9. (x) 

Will of Nathaniel Hopkins. 

In the Name of God Amen this 
25th Day of March Anno Domini 
1765 I Nathaniel Hopkins of Har¬ 
wich in the County of Barnstable 
within the Province of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Bay in New England 
yeoman being in an advanced age 
but of perfect mind and memory 
Thanks be to God therefore but 
calling to mind the mortality of 
my body and knowing that it is 
appointed for all men once to Dye 
Do make and Ordain this my last 
will and Testament, That is to 
say, principally and first of all I 
give and Recommend my soul into 
the hands of God that Gave it 
and my body I Recommend to the 
Earth to be Buried in decent 
Christian manner att the discretion 
of my Executor nothing Doubting 
but att the General Resurrection 
I shall Receive the same again 
by the mighty Power of God and 
as touching such worldly estate 
wherewith it hath pleased God to 
bless me in this Life I Give 


(v) 13 Barn. Prob. Rees. 246. 

(w) Har. Rees.; 4 Mf. 178, 179. 

(x) Har. Rees.; 13 Mf. 56. 





STEPHEN 1 AND GILES* HOPKINS 


22 

Demise and Dispose of the same 
in the following manner and form. 

Imprimis, I will that all my 
Just debts and funeral Charges be 
well & truly paid out of my 
moveables or personal estate and 
then I Give and Bequeath unto 
Mercy my well beloved wife one 
good feather bed & suitable Fur- 
nature for the same and other 
household stuff sufficient to keep 
house withall and all the provision 
that shall be in my house att my 
decease and two cowes and my 
horse or mare and the Improve¬ 
ment of all my Real Estate so 
long as she shall Remain my 
widow 

Item. I Give to each of my 
Daughters and to their heirs and 
assigns forever The sum of four¬ 
ty shillings viz to my daughter 
Elizabeth Crosby forty shillings 
Lawful 1 money of New England 
and to my Daughter Mercy White 
forty shillings to be paid to each 
of them by my Execr six months 
after my Decease. 

Item I Give and bequeath to 
my son Nathaniel and to his heirs 
& assigns forever one shilling he 
having received sufficient for his 
portion already by his own choice 
and the remainder of my move¬ 
ables or personal estate after the 
payment of my Just Debts and 
Funeral charges and the above 
mentioned Legacies I give and 
bequeath to my other three sons 
and to my Grandchildren viz the 
two children of my son Samuel 
Deceasd to be equally Divided 
among them all as followeth viz 
to my son David and to his heirs 
and assigns forever one quarter to 
my son Reuben one quarter and 


to his heirs and assigns forever, 
to my son Theophilus and to his 
heirs and assigns forever one 
quarter, and the other quarter to 
my two grandchildren above 
named as followeth viz my grand¬ 
son James to have two thirds of 
said quarter to him his heirs & 
assigns forever and the other 
third of sd quarter I Give and 
bequeath to my grandaughter 
Mercy and to her heirs and assigns 
forever and I also Give and be¬ 
queath unto my three sons above 
mentioned and to my two grand¬ 
children above named and to their 
heirs and assigns forever all the 
rest of my estate att my wives 
decease or marriage to be divided 
in proportion as above written. 

And I do hereby constitute make 
and ordain my son Theophilus 
aforenamed to be my whole and 
sole executor to this my last will 
and Testament and I Do hereby 
uterly disallow revoke and dis- 
annull all and every other former 
Testaments Wills Legacies and 
Bequests and Executors by me 
in any wise before named willed 
and bequeathed Ratifying and 
confirming this and no other to 
be my Last will and Testament 
In witness whereof I have here¬ 
unto sett my hand and seal the 
day and year above written 

Nathaniel Hopkins (L S) 
Signed sealed Published Pro¬ 
nounced & Declared by 
the said Nathaniel Hop¬ 
kins to be his Last Will 
and Testament in pres¬ 
ence of us 

Eleazer Crosby ; 

Mercy Hinkley 
Phillip Selew 


MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 


FIFTH GENERATION. 

Samuel 5 (Nathaniel 4 , Stephen®, 
Giles 2 , Stephen 1 ) Hopkins, b. in 
Harwich (the part now Brewster) 
Aug. 30, 1724; m.(y) there Aug. 

23,1753, Mehitable 5 (yl) (Jabez 4 , Lt. 
Prence 8 , Mark 2 , Nicholas 1 ) Snow; 
d. there Nov. 15, 1761, in his 38th 
year.(z) He was received into 
full communion in the church 
June 7, 1761, and June 21 the 

same year he was baptized, (a) 
Children: 

James, b. April 24, 1755. (b) 

Huldah, bap. July 3, 1757;(c) 
d. before March 25, 1765, the date 
of her grandfather’s will. 

Mercy, bap. June 3, 1759;(c) m. 
John Hawes of Chatham, Jan. 5, 
1777; (d) d. Jan. 27, 1834, leaving 
issue, (e) 

Eunice, bap. June 21, 1761; (a) 


(y) Harwich Records. The dec¬ 
laration of intention was Aug. 4, 
1753. 

(yl) She was b. in Harwich 
(Brewster) April 22, 1731 (8 Mf. 

162) , and baptized April 25, 1731 
(6 Mf. 217). There was a Mehit- 
able, daughter of John Snow, b. 
in Harwich Jan. 16, 1733-4 (8 Mf. 

163) , but she d. in May, 1755 (10 
Mf. 124). 

(z) Brewster Gravestone Records, 
57. According to the Bangs Diary, 
he died of consumption. 

(a) Brewster Church Rees.; 12 
Mf. 53. 

(b) Har. Rees. 

(c) Brewster Church Rees.; 10 
Mf. 251, 253. 

(d) Chat. Rees. 

(e) Chat. Rees. See Hawes gen¬ 
ealogy by the compiler. 


23 

d. before March 25, 1765, the date 
of her grandfather’s will. 

His will dated Feb. 25, 1761, and 
proved March 16, 1762, makes his 
wife Mehitable executrix and 
leaves her his estate, but provides 
that if she should marry, then 
whert is left shall go to his chil¬ 
dren, (f) 

Nov. 11, 1766, Reuben Ryder of 
Chatham was appointed guardian 
of his children, James Hopkins and 
Mercy Hopkins, (g) 

Samuel 5 Hopkins’s widow Me¬ 
hitable m. 2d. Reuben Ryder of 
Chatham Oct. 16, 1766. (h) By him 
she had two daughters, Susannah, 
who m. Isaac Smith of Chatham, 
and Mehitable, who m. Nathaniel 
Snow of Chatham, (i) These 
daughters left issue. Nov. 11, 1766, 
Reuben Ryder was appointed guar¬ 
dian of her children, James and 
Mercy Hopkins, (j) 

Reuben Ryder died before April 
30, 1773, when letters of adminis¬ 
tration on his estate were granted 
to his widow Mehitable.(k) Nov. 
29, 1774, she was appointed guar- 


(f) 12 Barn. Prob. Rees. 279. 

(g) 14 Barn. Prob. Rees. 166, 
167. 

(h) Har. Rees. The record of 

the marriage calls her Mehitable 
Snow, but the declaration of in¬ 
tention Sept. 27, 1766, both in 

Harwich and Chatham gives her 
name as Mehitable Hopkins. 

(i) Information from the com¬ 
piler’s Aunt Patia (Hawes) Howes 
in 1877. 

(,j) 14 Barn. Prob. Rees. 166, 167. 

(k) 16 Barn. Prob. Rees. 40. 





24 


STEPHEN 1 AND GILES* HOPKINS 


dian of Susannah and Mehit- 
able.(l) 

April 11, 1785, division of his 
lands was made to his widow, then 
Mehitable Crowell, and to his two 
daughters Susannah and Mehit- 
able.(m) 

The widow Mehitable Ryder mar. 
3d Deacon Paul Crowell of Chat¬ 
ham May 4, 1775, (n) by whom she 
had one daughter, Betsey, who 
mar. Solomon Smith of Barnsta¬ 
ble. (o) 

Deacon Paul Crowell died Nov. 
10, 1808, in his 92d year.(ol) 

His will mentions his wife 
Mehitable, his sons Hallett, 
Thomas, Joseph, Ezra and Paul, 
his daughters Patience Ryder, Re¬ 
liance Hopkins and Betsey Smith, 
and his grandchildren Betsey 
Knowles, Paul Sears and Betsey 
Sears, (p) 

His widow Mehitable died 
before June 29, 1813, when the 
division was made of her 
thirds as widow of Reuben Ryder 
to Mehitable, wife of Nathaniel 
Snow, and to Ryder Smith, James 
Smith, Priscilla Smith, Hannah 
Smith, Susannah Smith, Freeman 
Smith and Molly Smith, children 
of Susannah, late wife of Isaac 
Smith, (q) 


(l) 15 Barn. Prob. Rees. 200, 201. 

(m) 26 ib. 24. 

(n) Chat. Rees. 

(o) Information from the com¬ 
piler’s Aunt Patia (Hawes) Howes 
in 1877. 

(ol) Gravestone; 8 Mf. 237. 

(p) 32 Barn. Prob. Rees. 237; 33 
ib. 83; 35 ib. 71, 246. 

(q) 37 Barn. Prob. Rees. 458-460. 


Will of Samuel Hopkins. 

In the Name of God Amen Feb¬ 
ruary 25th 1761 I Samuel Hopkins 
of Harwich in the County of 
Barnstable in the Province of the 
Massachusetts Bay in New Eng¬ 
land being weak in body but of 
Perfect mind and memory Thanks 
be Given to God therefore Calling 
to mind the mortality of my Body 
Do make and ordain this my Last 
will and Testament that is to say 
Principally and first of all I Give 
and Recommend my soul Into the 
Hands of God that gave it and 
my Body I Recommend to the 
earth to be buried in Decent 
Christian Burial at ye Discresion 
of my Executor hereinafter 
named; and as Touching such 
worldly estate wherewith it hath 
pleased God to bless me in this 
life I Give demise dispose of the 
same in the following manner and 
form. 

I will That my Just Debts and 
funeral charge be well and truly 
paid out of my Estate Real or 
Personal as my Executor hereafter 
Named shall think proper then 
I Give and bequeath unto Mehit¬ 
able my well beloved wife all my 
Real and Personal or Moveable 
Estate to be at her own Dispose 
as she shall think proper to En¬ 
able her to pay my Just Debts as 
abovesaid and to bring up our 
Children but if she should marry 
again and any of said estate 

should - My Will is that it be 

equally divided amongst all my 
children and I Do hereby Consti¬ 
tute make appoint and ordain my 
above named wife Mehitable to be 
my whole and sole Executor of 
this my Last Will and Testament 



MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS 


and I Do hereby utterly Revoke 
and disannull all and every other 
or former Testament Will Leg¬ 
acies and Bequests and Executors 
by me in any wise before named 
Willed or Bequeathed Ratifying 
and Confirming this and no other 
to be my Last Will & Testament 
In witness whereof I have here¬ 
unto set my hand and seal the 
Day and year above written Signd 
Seald Published and Declared by 
sd Samll Hopkins to be his Last 
Will and Testament in presence 
of us the subscribers 
his 

Samuell X Hopkins (L S.) 
mark 

Nathaniel Hopkins 
Theoplilus Hopkins 
Jabez Snow. 


SIXTH GENERATION. 

James® (Samuel 6 , Nathaniel 4 , 
Stephen*, Giles 2 , Stephen 1 ) Hop¬ 
kins, b. April 24, 1755, in Harwich 
(the part now Brewster 1 ) ;(r) m. 
in Chatham Reliance, daughter of 
Deacon Paul Crowell, March 7, 
1776;(s) d. before March 20, 1820, 
when letters of administration 
were granted on his estate to his 
brother-in-law Ezra Crowell.(t) 

The inventory of his estate 
amounted to $499.00 in real estate 
and $93.08 in personal property. 
The estate appears to have been 
insolvent, (u) 

He served in the Revolutionary 
war. “Massachusetts Soldiers and 
Sailors of the Revolutionary War” 


(r) Har. Rees. 

(s) Chat. Rees. 

(t) 36 Barn. Prob. Rees. 450. 

(u) 43 Barn. Prob. Rees. 106, 288. 


25 

(vol. 8, p. 238) contains the fol¬ 
lowing: 

“Hopkins, James, Chatham. Pri¬ 
vate, Capt. Thomas Hamilton’s 
Co.; enlisted July 10, 1775; service 
to Dec. 31, 1775, 6 mos. 7 days; 
company stationed on the sea- 
coast in Barnstable Co.; also, Capt. 
Benjamin Godfrey’s Co., Col. John 
Cushing’s regt.; service from Sept. 
23, 1776, 60 days, at Rhode Island; 
roll dated Newport and sworn to 
in Barnstable Co.; also, Capt. Ben¬ 
jamin Godfrey’s Co., Col. Josiah 
Whitney’s regt.; arrived at des¬ 
tination May 10, 1777; discharged 
July 10, 1777; service, 2 mos. 12 
days, at Rhode Island, travel (12 
days) included; 108 miles reported 
as distance from Chatham to place 
of destination; enlistment, 2 
months; roll dated Boston Neck, 
South Kingston.” 

According to the U. S. census of 
1790 for Massachusetts (p. 13,) 
his family consisted of one adult 
male, two males under 16 and 
three females. 

Children, born in Chatham:(v) 

Huldah, b. April 22, 1778; m. 
Oct. 4, 1808, William Bea. 

Samuel, b. July 18, 1780; m. 

Abigail Crowell Feb. 17, 1806. 

They lived in Chatham and had 
Sept. 23, 1807, Lucinda, and July 
9, 1810, Huldah. 

Rebecca, b. May 21, 1785; m. 
1st Nov. 23, 1806, John Howes, and 
2d(w) Hamilton; lived in 

Chatham, (w) 

James, b. June 1, 1787; m. 


(v) Chat. Rees. 

(w) Information from the com¬ 
piler’s oldest sister (b. 1826), Mrs. 
Sally T. Smith. 





STEPHEN 1 AND GILES* HOPKINS 


26 

March 8, 1808, Cynthia Snow. 

Eunice, b. Oct. 6, 1790; m. 

Lendal Nickerson March 12, 
1807. (x) 

Nathaniel, b. Sept. 24, 1792. 
Mercy, b. Nov. 18, 1794; m. 
Dec. 2, 1819, James Eldredge, 

Jr.(y) 

Reliance, b. Nov. 2, 1796; m. 

Nov. 4, 1819, James Eldredge, Sr. 

Mehitable, b. Nov. 8, 1798; m. 
1st Abijah Eldredge and 2d Chris¬ 
topher Smith, (w) the 2d wife of 
both husbands. 

Betsey, b. Feb. 2, 1800. 

The compiler’s Aunt Patia 
(Hawes) Howes informed him in 
1877 that James* Hopkins’s sons 
left no male issue. 


SEVENTH GENERATION. 

Reliance 7 (James®, Samuel", Na¬ 
thaniel 4 , Stephen", Giles*, Stephen 1 ) 
Hopkins, b. in Chatham Nov. 2, 
1796; m. there Nov. 4, 1819, James 
Eldredge; d. Oct. 18, 1860, aged 63 
years and 11 months. He d. 
March 12, 1858, aged 63 years and 
5 months, (z) They lived in West 
Chatham. 

Children, born in Chatham:(a) 
Elisha, d. young. 

Elisha, b. Jan. 31, 1822. 
Lucina, d. young. 


(x) Mrs. Smith thought her 
husband was Leonard Nickerson 
and that they lived in Dedham. 

(y) Mrs. Smith, who said that 
they lived in North Chatham and 
that two sisters, Mercy and Reli¬ 
ance, married men of the same 
name. 

(z) Gravestones in Baptist cem¬ 
etery in Chatham. 

(a) Information as to these and 


Daniel Webster, b. Nov. 5, 
1835. 


EIGHTH GENERATION. 

Elisha 8 Eldredge, son of James 
and (Reliance 7 Hopkins) Eldredge; 

b. Jan. 31, 1822; m. 1st in 1849 
Betsey Ann, daughter of Zenas 
Eldredge of South Chatham, 2d 
in 1855 Elizabeth, daughter of 
Ephraim Eldredge of South Chat¬ 
ham, and 3d in March, 1863, Marion 
W. Lothrop, widow of James D. 
Lothrop (son of Rev. Davis 
Lothrop) and daughter of Nehemi- 
ah D. Kelley of West Harwich; d. 
Oct. 31, 1878. 

Children, by 3d wife, born in 

South Chatham: 

a. Nehemiah D., b. Sept. 4, 1864; 
m. April 25, 1888, Sadie Brooks of 
Boston; d. in April, 1907, leaving 
two children, Charles, b. March 16, 
1894, and Josephine D., 15 years 
old in 1915, who live with their 
mother at 316 Newbury St„ Bos¬ 
ton, who married 2d Charles W. 
Warner. 

b. Mary Doane, b. Aug. 12, 1869; 
m. William E. Howes of Dennis- 
port, who live in Malden and 
have Victor E„ 19 years old, and 
Emily M., 8 years old. 

c. Victoria, b. in March, 1874; 

d. in 1888. 


Daniel 8 Webster Eldredge, son of 
James and (Reliance 7 Hopkins) 
Eldredge; b. Nov. 5, 1835; m. 

Oct. 12, 1858, Eliza Ann, 

daughter of Captain Hiram 
Small of Harwich; d. May 26, 1870. 


their descendants from the widows 
of Elisha and Daniel W. Eldredge. 







MAYFLOWER 

His widow m. Luther Eldredge, 
now deceased. 

Children, born in South Harwich: 

a. Hiram J., b. November, 1859; 
d. young. 

b. Effie Mabel, b. January, 1864; 
m. Eugene C. Ellis, who is post¬ 
master in East Wareham. They 
have three children: Harold Mer- 
win, Eugene Webster and Doris 
Amelia. 

c. Hiram Webster, b. October, 
1866; m. Jan. 24, 1889, in Harwich, 
Rebecca Mayo Snow. They have 
three children: Henry Burr, b. 
in Barnstable; Cranston Daniel 
and Mabel, b. in Antrim, N. H., 
where he is the editor and pub¬ 
lisher of The Antrim Reporter. 


ELDREDGE LINE. 

The Eldredge line is as fol¬ 
lows :(b) 

Robert 1 , first mentioned in the 
Colonial record in 1639, lived 
some 10 years in Plymouth and 
then removed to Yarmouth, where 
in 1649 he married Elizabeth, 
daughter of William 1 Nickerson. 
About 1666 he followed his father- 
in-law to Chatham, where he died 
about the beginning of 1683. He 
left among other children 

Lt. Nicholas 2 , b. in Yarmouth 
Aug. 18, 1650. He came with his 
father to Chatham, where he died 


(b) See “Eldred, Eldredge” by 
the compiler, published by C. W. 
Swift, Yarmouthport, Mass. 


PASSENGERS 27 

April 30, 1702. He left among 
other children 

James 3 , who died July 19, 1757, 
leaving among other children 
Abner 4 , who m. Sarah El¬ 
dredge April 19, 1762; (c) d. before 
May 12, 1772. (d) His children 

Dorcas, Abner 6 , Daniel 6 and De¬ 
sire had their uncle, Zephaniah 4 
Eldredge, termed a mariner, ap¬ 
pointed their guardian April 11, 
1774. (e) 

Daniel 6 (Abner 4 , James 3 , Nich¬ 
olas 3 , Robert 1 ) Eldredge, m. in 
Chatham Tabitha Howes (intention 
Oct. 6, 1787). (f) 

Children, born in Chatham :(g) 
Elisha 6 , b. Sept. 23, 1788; killed 
by lightning while at sea. He m. 
Patience Young and had one child, 
Mary, who m. Philip Small, of 
Harwichport, and has a son, Frank 
Small, living there.(h) 

Abner 6 , b. Jan. 22, 1791. He 
was a sea captain in his early life, 
married and had issue.(h) 

James 6 , b. Oct. 4, 1794; m. Re¬ 
liance Hopkins, as above stated. 

Sarah, b. April 14, 1798. She 
m. Jeremiah Kelly, of Centerville; 
no children, (h) 

Tabitha, b. Feb. 22, 1807; m. 
Jabez Crowell of East Harwich, (h) 


(c) Chatham Rees. See 15 Mf. 
133. 

(d) 16 Barn. Prob. Rees. 26. 

(e) 15 ib. 188-191. 

(f) 2 Chat. Rees. 314. 

(g) 3 Chat. Rees. 267. 

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